John White, convicted in shooting death of Daniel Cicciaro, fights to overturn verdict

[Blue_Tires]

Lawyers for a black man who killed a white teenager in a racially charged shooting on Long Island fought to get his conviction overturned on Friday as the boy's mother watched sadly.

Joanne Cicciaro sat through more than an hour of arguments over whether the man convicted of killing her 17-year-old son, Daniel, in 2006 received a fair trial in the Suffolk County case.

"I think God will make sure justice is preserved and that the truth is upheld," she said, wiping her eyes as she left a Brooklyn appeals court holding a Bible and surrounded by friends and family.

"They want to overturn what happened, but a jury of 12 people already decided the truth," Cicciaro said, as she absently fingered a locket with her son's picture in it.

John White, who is out on $200,000 bail while his appeal is heard, stood with dozens of members of the NAACP, the Nation of Islam and others on the courthouse steps to proclaim the injustice of the jury's decision.

"If John White can't defend his home, then who can?" the 55-year-old dad said. "I didn't go out there with the intent to do anybody harm."


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/10/24/2009-10-24_li_killers_conviction_overturn.html#ixzz0UtQnOVQV

always interesting when the parties are reversed...

[firedupdem]

1. I watched a 20/20 or dateline episode about this and it has always

stuck with me. I hope this man gets a retrial. That incident was horrible. Those kids came to that man's house intending to harm his son. He had every right to protect himself and his child.